Comment Re:Figures. (Score 1) 89
What country are you from, AK Marc? And in what capacity and how long did you stay in China? From this utter ignorance of the differences between US and China, I have a feeling you took the tourist route.
What country are you from, AK Marc? And in what capacity and how long did you stay in China? From this utter ignorance of the differences between US and China, I have a feeling you took the tourist route.
When speaking of bias, substance trumps technicality. Lies of omission and lies of fabrication are technically all lies, but are substantially different.
Explain Michael Moore's fortune in embarrassing government and politicians, and his continued freedom to do so
I'm saying your drawing of an equivalency is irrational given the difference in degree that you have admitted.
By constructing this equivalency, you are essentially saying that the US would experience no change whatsoever, either for better or for worse, if it were to nationalize and place under a propaganda department every existing media outlet, make private publishing illegal, and punish bloggers and celebrity commentators for publishing views different from the government narrative.
Most Slashdotters typically have a history of voicing disgust at the encroachment of government censorship within the US. However, if you truly believe your above equivalency, then there should be no disgust towards the US government at all in your comment history. Am I correct?
Fox News isn't a government sanctioned or government supported news outlet. You should at the very least compare NPR with CCTV to get anywhere close to a valid comparison. By the way, did you watch Chinese language CCTV or CCTV-9 International? Big difference there if you didn't know.
Why?
Maybe this ieee Spectrum author has a subtle personal bias and he injected a single provocative word, who knows? At least the story wasn't written for a government owned media outlet, passed through government censors working under the guidance of national political bias. Try People's Daily sometimes.
I have a hacker style laptop. It's black and key combos can be programmed to run macros. (also has extended capacity RAM -- 16GB, so who knows how many systems I can take down)
That'd be "USDA Approved" (since no one trusts domestic quality control). Check taobao.com with keyword USDA. So now there are tens of thousands of sellers claiming their cosmetics/vitamins/supplements/snacks/etc are USDA approved, but who knows if they're telling the truth...
Free markets and regulation aren't mutually exclusive. You're building a strawman when you say "free marketeers" are for "unregulated capitalism" -- it's like saying the communist fringe of OWS who talk about "fair share" are of the same mindset as President Obama just because he too uses that phrase.
FTA:
“Through all of my experience, what I never contemplated was that there were bankers who would purposely misrepresent facts to banking authorities,” says Alan Greenspan
...oh boy
Is someone feeling the pain from his Apple heavy portfolio? Looking to recover last week's loss asap?
Is laying the accusation of "anti-Iranian" making the same mistake as laying accusations of "anti-American"? Are the people and government of Iran inseparable, and impossible to critique the latter without offending the former? Would all the criticism of US political/economic/foreign policy in Slashdot threads about US scientific achievements also be Anti-American in your eyes (boy that would be a LOT of anti-Americanism for one site)? For your rationale to be consistent, they must be anti-American, but I suspect you would go by a different standard in those cases.
China is a bit behind, but it isn't in the 1850's. Child labor (defined as employment of people under 16 years of age) is illegal, and there exists compulsory education for children (as best as can be implemented in practice, of course), the same as any modern country* I'm quite certain that Apple and the Chinese government are on the same page with regard to their moral/legal stance on child labor. What bugs me is that there's no mention of the local government taking charge on the issue, and that Apple is tasked with doing what the government should be doing.
*Translate with your preferred service:
http://china.findlaw.cn/laodongfa/zhuanti/tonggong/
http://baike.baidu.com/view/63809.htm
I know this is terribly unfair, but should we not hold Progressives to a higher standard of conduct in terms of intelligent decisions and rational thought in the same way we hold the United States to a higher standard of conduct in terms of freedom and human rights? After all, no one brings up how bad Iran is when others speak of America's deficiencies in those areas. What you claim to be is how you are judged, right?
Gather all the people who did the Gaza flotilla thing
Sail into North Korea with food and medicine.
Film the entire trip.
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